According to Pop & Hiss, a Los Angeles Times blog, Bob Dylan will be joined on stage by The Avett Brothers and Mumford & Sons to perform a song from each of their catalogs in “a special salute to acoustic music” at this year’s Grammy’s. The bands have their similarities in both style and sound. Additionally, Dylan, considered the pioneer of folk rock, was a huge influence on both bands and I am sure that this will be career highlights for them. .

They will start out playing Mumford & Sons’ “The Cave” and then follow it up with The Avett Brothers’ “Head Full of Doubt, Road Full of Promise” and will end with a Dylan song but they haven’t announced which one yet. What Dylan song do you think that the three will decide to play together? There are quite a few to pick from so the odds aren’t in anyone’s favor but I have the feeling that they will be playing one of his classics like “Tangled Up in Blue” or “Like a Rolling Stone” because I just don’t see them getting too crazy on stage since Dylan is almost ten years away from becoming an octogenarian.

I wish they would toss Neil Young up in the mix to make it one of the best musical suites to ever play at the Grammy’s.

Here is Mumford & Sons’ music video for “The Cave”:

Here is The Avett Brothers’ music video for “Head Full of Doubt, Road Full of Promise”:

Bobby Long‘s debut album, ‘A Winter Tale’, is something that I stumbled across after listening to his Daytrotter Session from late 2010 and wanted to hear more. Long, a 24-year-old British singer/songwriter, has brought the fire on his debut studio album. It is chock full of powerful chords, dynamic vocals and moving lyrics which give his ballads something that a lot of American folk seems to have been missing recently. I think that this is one of the great albums so far in 2011.

I guess that it is fitting that the first post of the newly revived New American Noise isn’t about an American artist. However, Long is able to capture the Americana sound as well as some of my favorite troubadours like Kristian Matsson (a.k.a. The Tallest Man on Earth) and Anders Osborne…neither of whom are American. Long hit the mainstream when he wrote a song, “Let Me Sign”, that Robert Pattinson sang in Twilight but don’t let that deter you from checking out this album. It is really effin’ good. Stop by your local record store and scoop it up on vinyl or compact disc as soon as you can.

Here is a stream of the ‘A Winter Tale’ in its entirety with individual song intros by Bobby Long:

Long has been tearing through mid-sized venues on his US tour playing night after night before he heads out on his Australian and European tours in April. If you have the chance to catch one of these shows, you should definitely do it while the tickets to his shows aren’t that expensive ($8 – $15). I have the feeling that they are only going to be getting pricier as more people begin to realize how talented this guy is.

Check out the video below of him covering Hank Williams’ “They’ll Never Take Her Love From Me” from ATO Records: